Sean Newcomb

If you want to add someone intriguing that the models like maybe a Dustin May, Chris Bubich has that relationship with pitching coach Zach Bove from Kansas City.

Does Bubich just move into the bullpen because he possibly fill in the role for Sean Newcomb? there's brian abreu who did not have a very good season for the houston astros but to your point jim he has that experience of taking the ball every other day coming out of the bullpen good results or bad results brian abreu knows the drill and if you want a veteran closer there's canley jensen who just got let go by detroit i think he's a few saves away from a big milestone in his career is that someone that you sign to a really cheap veteran minimum deal and see if he can help out close some games at least early.

Yeah, if you expanded the payroll by another $20 million, I'm probably signing either Foster Griffin or Clay Holmes to help improve the rotation and maybe either moving Anthony Kaye or Davis Martin to the bullpen, maybe even Luis Castillo.

We'll see who actually looks good in spring training, but I would be adding more pitchers if given $20 million more.

There's also the argument on the flip side of that, like, who's next year's Sorokin? Who can we get for $10 million who has had major issues that can give us 130 innings with a 3-4? I know who you're going to say.

Who? Sean Newcomb.

Sean Newcomb's possible.

That's a guy I like in that.

I think you could just do it again with Matthew Boyd.

There's no way on

that.

That's why I do want to come back to Sean Newcomb, because he, to me, is my understated, underrated move to the rotation reliever this year.

I'm guessing the Cardinals are not going to be splashing around in the waters that contain somebody like Adrian Morhone.

Sean Newcomb, who was with the White Sox this past year, was a guy I wanted last year.

And here's the thing.

In free agency last year, we don't know who they talked to and tried to bring in.

We don't know.

Maybe they did talk to Sean Newcomb and he decided to go to Chicago.

I don't know.

But he was the guy I wanted last year.

Yeah, I got to give him the victory.

I also think about, now that we're in the offseason, he made Sean Newcomb so much money.

Sean Newcomb's a free agent.

He's about to get paid because of how valuable he was for this White Sox team.

Opening, closing, middle relief.

So a lot of good lefties in this year's free agent class.

Sean Newcomb, Stephen O'Kurt, Jojo Romero, and Alex Vessia.

And then the other guy that just missed is Emilio Pagan.

And we'll probably talk a little bit about Pagan when we get to one of the closers in the middle of this list as far as kind of the contract comps.

Those are going to be the teams that I'm going to shop from, although this offseason, I don't see anybody from the Red Sox that they can grab.

But the Dodgers, as you said, Alex Vecchia, I don't know if he's going to come here, but that would be a guy that I would love to see them get to improve over Sean Newcomb.

Yes, yeah.

I'm a big fan of Alec Vessia.

Southsiders would love him.

He's a super fiery guy out there on the field when he's come through for them in big moments throughout the playoffs and big regular season games.

You bring up a great point about Sean Newcomb because he's a free agent.

I don't really think he's going to be back in a White Sox uniform.

But JoJo Romero would be one.

Sean Newcomb.

I remember Sean Newcomb as a starter with the Atlanta Braves.

Over the last two years, Sean Newcomb has turned himself into a very reliable reliever.

He's coming off a 90-inning, 60-performance season, which shows you he's a multi-inning reliever, pitched to a .309 ERA, a .273 ERA the year before that when he made 48 appearances and threw 92 innings.

So the appeal of Newcomb is that you're getting a left-hander who can give you multiple innings.